How to publish your chatbot on Google RCS

The step-by-step of publishing the brand agent on Google RCS must be carried out in conjunction with your Take Blip CSM. Some permissions are only granted to Google by accredited partners, making it impossible to publish the smart contact on your own.

ATTENTION: The use of Google RCS is restricted to some companies. Follow the steps outlined in this article only if your company has access to this channel. If you are interested in using the Google RCS channel, contact us by sending an email to community@take.net.

Before starting the process of posting a smart contact to the Google RCS channel, check all the necessary prerequisites.

Setting up your smart contact in Blip

After configuring a test number, obtaining a passkey and agent information from Google through Take Blip, you must configure your smart contact (bot) in Blip.Access your bot in Blip, and go to the advanced settings screen.

Always using the postmaster@googlercs.gw.msging.net domain, add the RCS configuration keys by changing the values ​​with your data, as shown in the table below.

• AccountExternalId - Random key used to identify your bot. This is the same information used in the PubSub URL when configuring the agent by Take Blip.
• RcsClientToken - Token obtained during the creation of the RCS key.
• ServiceCredentialJson - JSON file content obtained during the creation of the RCS key.

After making all the previous settings, click the Verify button. This is the last configuration step. If all steps have been successfully executed, just test the functioning of your application.

To test the operation of the bot, access the Messages application, through the enabled test number, and send a message to your agent.